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FAMF: Files As Metadata Format (prma.dev)
submitted 5 months ago by prma@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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YAML and TOML suck. Long live the FAMF!

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[–] prma@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What would you do with billions of inodes?

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Run out, far more frequently than you would imagine.

[–] prma@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Well I'd you have so many data entry, yaml and toml are not that helpful either. They would present different sets of problems. You should use a database (perhaps sqlite) for that purpose.